The highlight among other many things was, of course, the science movie. We are still exploring and experimenting with light. Today, Andrew (and Saara) learned about how light travels. We all huddled up in the kids' bathroom and did some tests with light and its rays.
In LA, Andrew learned a little about alliteration and went crazy coming up with is own phrases. The best one was: "Queen Elizabeth's quiet court". With the rest, you had to have a rather excellent imagination to make sense of the phrase. But, Andrew got the point of what alliteration is.
It is very odd, but if there are snakes involved, Andrew can remember the story so much better, even names. In History, we are still working on the memorizing facts about the Roman empire and Julius Caesar, Augustus, and even Antony. But Cleopatra and how she met her end seem not to be a problem at all. Odd. But it works.
Did I say, it is a busy Monday? Saara's got her game tonight in the 90 F heat. Oh, bleachers, here I come!
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| Andrew learning about ounces and pounds and feeling the weight. |
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| 5 lb. My 'sack o' potatoes' feeling how much he weighed when he was born. |
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| The flash spoiled it all, but Andrew was having fun directing his light. He said it was much like shooting. Light does travel straight. |
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| Andrew making the 'light-bunny' on the wall illuminate the tennis ball on the floor. Using mirrors and light. |
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| This was our favorite experiment: building a model of the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon. Andrew finally understood the moon phases. Can you spot the half moon tennis ball? Pretty cool. |
